DECEMBER 21, 2025: Croquembouche
$175.00
Date: Sunday, December 21, 2025
Time: 12am - 4pm
Cost: $175 per person
PLEASE READ ALL CLASS POLICIES BELOW CLASS DESCRIPTION BEFORE MAKING YOUR PURCHASE.
Do you adore eclairs and cream puffs? Have you considered croquembouche too difficult a dessert to make at home? In case you've never heard of this delicacy, croquembouche is a traditional dessert the French serve for special events like weddings, baptisms or birthdays and consists of cream puffs dipped in a strong candied sugar "glue" and arranged into a magnificent tower.
Learn the secrets of French pâte à choux dough from Jessica Dowdy Lopez, a pastry chef trained in Paris, France who has worked in a Parisian Michelin-starred kitchen, as well as artisanal bakeries, restaurants and hotels in central Texas.
You'll learn the dazzling history of this unique dough, which dates back to Renaissance times. Highlighting Barton Springs Mill's French heritage landrace grain, Rouge de Bordeaux, brings another level of flavor and authenticity.
You'll learn technique and custom recipes for all the components of this towering masterpiece. Finally, the pièce de résistance, you will make a little croquembouche tower of your own to take home, admire and devour.
Enjoy a festive mug of hot spiced wine or apple cider and some choux pastries as you learn new pastry skills to impress your family and friends this holiday season.
Things to look forward to:
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Have an opportunity to work with our own fresh flours, stone-ground right here at Barton Springs Mill
- Learn how to master elevated French pastry
- Make, fill, and build your own croquembouche to show off at home!
- Tour the mill with our Education team
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Purchase BSM products at a 15% discount
BYOB is fine by us for participants 21+ 🍻
Class Policies:
TICKETS ARE FINAL SALE, NON-REFUNDABLE, and NON-TRANSFERABLE TO OTHER CLASSES. You may transfer tickets to another person to attend in your place - simply have them check in under the original name used to purchase the ticket(s).
By purchasing tickets to attend one of our classes, you acknowledge that you have read and agreed to our Participant Class Policies and Media Release.
Touring our facility requires that all participants adhere to health guidelines - all touring participants (included in ticket) will be required wear a hair net that effectively restraints all hair, including mustaches, goatees, and any other facial hair. Close-toed shoes and shirts that cover the underarms and shoulders are required for entering any part of our facility, per health code. No exceptions.
In keeping with the low COVID risk level in Travis County, masks are optional and up to personal discretion for this class.
In the event of class cancellation, we will email you to notify you of a canceled class.